Matt’s Extra Shot of Espresso – Quicksie 98.3: Recent Episodes
Quicksie 98.3
Minor League hockey fans in Hershey, Pennsylvania broke a world record last week for most stuffed animals tossed on the ice at once . . . 74,599 of them. Matt English shares why …
5 Random Facts for your listening pleasure – including the Fact of the Day … at least 12 dogs were on the Titanic and only 3 survived … 2 Pomeranians and 1 Pekingese.
A couple flying back to New Jersey after a vacation in Mexico had their five-month-old daughter with them. And by the time they landed, a woman next to them had crocheted a hat for the kid to celebrate her first flight.
5 Random Facts including one about Jell-O that we probably forgot about … and wish we still didn’t know.
The Guinness Book of World Records announced a woman from Utah named Dwan Jacobsen Young is officially the world’s oldest woman to go waterskiing. She’s 92 years old and still at it.
5 Random Facts including your Random Fact of the Day … about fingernails and toenails. EW!
An Illinois trucker’s cat recently escaped and went missing at a truck stop in Nevada . . . and turned up five days later at a shelter 670 miles away in Wyoming.
5 Random Facts including your Random Fact of the Day: A town called Alert in Nunavut, Alaska is the northernmost place in the world where people live. And it’s still 500 miles from the North Pole.
A guy in Wales in the UK was stumped when small items on his workbench kept getting moved back into a little wooden box at night.
5 Random Facts including the Random Fact of the Day:
The first Apple computer went on sale in July of 1976 and cost $666.66. Steve Wozniak picked the price because he liked repeating numbers … forgetting about the “other implications”.
An 89-year-old Navy vet in Florida loves hanging out at a diner in Pensacola called Scenic 90 Café. So last month, they posted a photo of him on Facebook and said Mr. Lee “loves our company, but we love his even more.”
4 Random Facts including the Random Fact of the Day:
You always hear about Lassie saving Timmy when he fell down a well. But it never happened in any of the 571 episodes of “Lassie”. The only character who ever fell down a well was . . . LASSIE.
Workers remodeling a movie theater in Atlanta found an old wallet in a wall that someone lost over 65 years ago in 1958.
5 Random Facts including the Random Fact of the Day … Goldfish were originally green and gray, not orange (considered to be a genetic mutation). The orange color was more popular, however, so they were bred more orange.
Layla Peck is seven years old and lives near Scranton, Pennsylvania, and her best friend just turned 100.
5 Random Facts including the RANDOM FACT OF THE DAY:
The first basketball was a soccer ball. When the game was invented by Dr. James Naismith and first being played in the 1890s, that was the best option available. Coach Cal and the Cats play a little more advanced game and are looking to beat the Gators this Saturday on Quicksie 98.3!
A little white dog named Oakley got attacked by two coyotes, but a strange hero came to the rescue.
5 Random Facts for January 3, 2024 including Matt’s Random Fact of the Day … While you’re in line for Star Tours at Disneyland, you’ll hear the name “Egroeg Sacul” being paged. That’s creator George Lucas’ name backward. A land-speeder with the license plate “THX 1138” is also referenced, and that’s George’s first movie.
5 Random Facts for January 2, 2024 including Matt’s Random Fact of the Day … In less than 100 days, we’ll have a solar eclipse across our area, but did you know … that pigs won’t be able to see it? They can’t look up due to their anatomy, so the pigs will just have to wonder why it got dark all of a sudden.
Hawaii eats more SPAM than any other state. So their parent company, Hormel Foods, is doing their part to help wildfire victims in Maui.
A 51-year-old guy in England needed a new kidney, and the odds of finding a match weren’t good.
A California police officer is being called a hero after rescuing a dog from a house fire by cutting his chains with a garden lopper.
The oldest woman in Texas celebrated her 114th birthday and was given an award for living so long.
Spring is awesome, but it leads to allergy season. Matt checks what we’re googling these days.
You shouldn’t keep spiders in your house. Ever. Find out from Matt some reasons why you need to kick that eight-legged freak out.
A momma duck gave birth to 10 little ducklings outside an OBGYN clinic maternity ward. Matt says “birds of a feather” …
Seems like every day there’s another reason to believe the machines will become self-aware like in “The Terminator”. Matt tells you more about this new…
Matt is a huge Star Wars nerd. This post from Mark Hamill about Luke asking questions all the time sent Matt into hyperdrive.
Matt admits to eating dog food … as a baby. Unlike another fella who ate dog treat for 20 years until just recently.